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An overview of important and/or interesting journal articles
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**An overview of important and/or interesting journal articles (ordered by year then alphabetically by first author's surname). Journal abbreviations follow ISO 4**



See also [the reference collection to push back against common statistical myths](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-collection-to-push-back-against-common-statistical-myths/1787), [Wiki Journal Club](https://www.wikijournalclub.org/wiki/Main_Page), [Society for Epidemiologic Research journal club](https://epiresearch.org/journal-club/), [Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America journal club](https://shea-online.org/index.php/membership/shea-journal-club), [Reading lists from Columbia University](https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/programs/population-health-methods/scholarship/reading-lists), [Tibshirani's hot ideas journal club](https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~ryantibs/journalclub/), [ReproducibiliTea](https://reproducibilitea.org/), [International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology journal club](https://webed.pharmacoepi.org/products/ispe-journal-club-webinar), and [Global Diabetes Journal Club](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/global-diabetes-journal-club) as well as Twitter hashtags [#twitjc (general)](https://twitter.com/hashtag/twitjc), [#phtwitjc (public health)](https://twitter.com/hashtag/phtwitjc), and [#idjclub (infectious disease)](https://twitter.com/hashtag/idjclub)



Tutorial articles can be found in the series: [JAMA Guide to Statistics and Medicine](https://jamanetwork.com/collections/44042/guide-to-statistics-and-medicine), [Statistics in Medicine's tutorial papers](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10970258/homepage/tutorials.htm), Nature's [Points of Significance](https://www.nature.com/collections/qghhqm/pointsofsignificance), and the BMJ [Statistics Notes](https://www.bmj.com/specialties/statistics-notes) and [Endgames](https://www.bmj.com/specialties/statistics). Also relevant might be the resources from the [Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit](https://cscu.cornell.edu/resources).



* Gram, H. C. (1884). _Über die isolierte Färbung der Schizomyceten in Schnitt- und Trockenpräparaten_. Fortschritte der Medizin. 2:185–189.

> Description of Gram staining.



* Koch, R. (1876). _Die aetiologie der milzbrand-krankheit, begrundet auf die entwicklungsgeschichte des bacillus antracis_. Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen. 2:277–310. DOI:[10.25646/5064](https://doi.org/10.25646/5064)

> Description of the bacillus that causes anthrax.



* Snow, J. (1855). _On the Mode of Communication of Cholera_. John Churchill, London.

> Mapping of cholera/early field epidemiology.



* Pasteur, L. (1880). _Sur les maladies virulentes et en particulier sur la maladie appelée vulgairement choléra des poules_. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. 90:249–248.

> Discovery of vaccine against fowl cholera.



* Lotka, A. J. (1910). _Contribution to the Theory of Periodic Reaction_. J Phys Chem. 14(3):271–274. DOI:[10.1021/j150111a004](https://doi.org/10.1021/j150111a004). 

> Predator-prey model.



* Ross, R. (1911). _The Prevention of Malaria_. Murray, London. Second edition.

> First mathematical model for malaria.



* Fisher, R. A. (1922) _On the mathematical foundations of theoretical statistics_. Philos Trans R Soc Lond A Contain Pap Math Phys Character. 22(594-604):309-368. DOI:[10.1098/rsta.1922.0009](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1922.0009)



* Kermack, W. O. and McKendrick, A. G. (1927). _A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics_. Proc. Royal Soc. A. 115(772):700–721. DOI:[10.1098/rspa.1927.0118](https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1927.0118). 

> The SIR model. Introduces the reproduction number.



* Kolmogorov, A. (1933) Sulla determinazione empirica di una legge di distribuzione [On the empirical determination of a distribution]



* de Finetti, B. (1937). _La Prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives [Foresight: Its logical laws, its subjective sources]_ Ann Inst Henri Poincaré. 7:1-68



* Gnedenko, B. (1943) _Sur la distribution limite du terme maximum d'une série aléatoire [On the limiting distribution of the maximum term in a random series]_.

 

* Wald, A. (1945). _Sequential tests of statistical hypotheses_. Ann Math Stat. 16(2):117-186 DOI:[{10.1214/aoms/1177731118](https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177731118)

 

* Wald, A. (1949). _Statistical decision functions_. Ann Math Stat. 20(2):165-205 DOI:[10.1214/aoms/1177730030](https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177730030)

 

* Robbins, H. (1956). _An empirical Bayes approach to statistics_.



* Hayflick, L. (1965). _The Limited in vitro Lifetime of Human Diploid Cell Strains_. Exp Cell Res. 37(3):614–636. DOI:[10.1016/0014-4827(65)90211-9](https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4827(65)90211-9).

> WI-38 cells paper (used in vaccine development).



* Birch, M. W. (1963). _Maximum Likelihood in Three-Way Contingency Tables_. J R Stat Soc B (Methodol). 25(1):220-233.

 

* Cox, D. R. (1972). _Regression Models and Life-Tables_. J R Stat Soc B (Methodol). 34:187-202. DOI:[10.1111/j.2517-6161.1972.tb00899.x]https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2517-6161.1972.tb00899.x



* Akaike, H. (1973). _Information Theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle_.



* Efron, B. (1979). _Bootstrap methods: another look at the jackknife_. 7(1): DOI:[10.1214/aos/1176344552](https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344552)



* Prusiner, S. B. (1982). _Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause scrapie_. Science. 216(4542):136–144. DOI:[10.1126/science.6801762](https://doi/org/10.1126/science.6801762).

> Discovery of prions.



* Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005). _Why Most Published Research Findings Are False_. PLOS Medicine 2(8):e124. DOI:[10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124).



* Song, W. T. (2005). _Relationships among some univariate distributions_. IIE Transactions. 37(7):651-656. DOI:[10.1080/07408170590948512](https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170590948512).

> Includes a figure with relationships between univariate distributions.



* Leemis, L. M. and McQueston, J. T. (2008). _Univariate Distribution Relationships_. American Statistician 62(1):45-53. DOI:[10.1198/000313008X270448](https://doi.org/10.1198/000313008X270448).

> Includes a figure with relationships between univariate distributions. Updates previous article by Leemis (1986).



* Bennett, C. M., Baird, A. A., Miller, M. B., and Wolford G. L. (2010). _Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction_. J. Serendipitous Unexpected Results. 1(1):1–5

> The dead salmon study. Highlights issues with multiple testing.



* Lloyd-Smith, J. O., Mollison, D., Metcalf, J. E., Klepac, P., and Heesterbeek, J. A. P. (2015) _Challenges in Modelling Infectious Disease Dynamics_. 10 DOI(to editors preface of special edition):[10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.001](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.001).

> Provides overviews of some topics/can be used as a quick reference



* Halsey, L. G. (2019). _The reign of the p-value is over: what alternative analyses could we employ to fill the power vacuum?_ Biol. Lett. 15:20190174 DOI:[10.1098/rsbl.2019.0174](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0174)



* Kennedy-Shaffer, L. (2019). _Before p<0.05 to Beyond p<0.05: Using History to Contextualize p-Values and Significance Testing_. Am. Stat. 73(sup1):82-90 DOI:[10.1080/00031305.2018.1537891](https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2018.1537891)

> Historical context for Fisher and Neyman